OVERVIEW OF AN ELECTRONIC VOTING SCHEMES

Abstract

Each state structure can be regarded as a service to citizens and accordingly electronic government will be the application of the latest informational/technological advances and communication technologies for providing efficient and effective services, information and required knowledge through the Internet or other related digital technologies. In the first place, citizens expect to find on the Internet plenty services related to the operations of the government sector, therefore, on the other hand government structures have their own reasons for the transition to the implementation of e-government (e.g. savings). Evoting is used across the globe in the various levels of government. In some countries, elections were held at the state level with the e-voting option. Any e-voting system (EVS) has its own requirements, characteristics and properties, and based on them it can be choose optimal solution for any situation. It will be describe the specific e-voting systems and e-voting schemes in which based on such as mix-net schemes, homomorphic schemes, Prêt-à-vote schemes, biometric schemes, schemes based on visual cryptography, schemes based on PKI and smart cards, etc.